picked up a couple of books that i'd put on hold at the library...i see books in the QPB catalog that look cool and then just end up checking them out instead of buying them from the book club - tis a good source for finding interesting reading material...

so, anyways...an internet buddy mentioned that "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes solution : a complete guide to achieving normal blood sugars" by Richard Bernstein was a must read....i've poked around in it a bit, but not gotten into it because i'm currently hooked on the other book i checked out this week - "Word freak : heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players" by Stefan Fatsis. in this book, the emphasis is definitely on the word FREAK - there's a whole subculture of people playing scrabble competitively, and they're certainly a group of colorful personalities. i forgot how much i liked playing scrabble as a kid, and knowing that mom's at-home internet time lately has consisted of word puzzles, i figured i'd go get a board and give it a go again. we had a lot of fun with it!

also in my purchases today - The Sea Monkeys Ocean Of Fun! i'm not sure how i ended up there - a link on fark, perhaps? - but i ended up on www.sea-monkeys.com earlier this week, and i was amazed...so now i'm gonna try to be a breeder - of Sea Monkeys, that is! *8-)

hrm....scrabble...sea monkeys...am i regressing?!? naah, don't think so, just trying to chill out a bit and not be so uptight...

so, i got an email from Bia a while back, who'd stumbled upon my blog and liked it...i asked her what her blog address was - she told me it was in portugese. knowing absolutely no portugese, i thought i'd run some of it through freetranslation.com - scary! i don't think what they told me she said was anywhere near what she said... "I am happy. I have faucet." ?!? or maybe she is happy about having a faucet...*shrug*

alrighty, got that Far Side cartoon scanned that i mentioned on 6/30...yup, definitely gonna give it to the therapist...*8-)

"I pledge allegiance to and wrap myself in the flag of the United States
Against Anything Un-American and to the Republicans for which it stands,
two nations, under Jesus, rich against poor, with curtailed liberty and
justice for all except blacks, homosexuals, women who want abortions,
Communists, welfare queens, treehuggers, feminazis, illegal immigrants,
children of illegal immigrants, and you if you don't watch your step."

~ Matt Groening, "Life in Hell", 16 Dec 94

(yowza - wonder what Groening would think if he knew in '94 how things were going to be now in '02....)

then there's the more lighthearted version, from "School Is Hell" -

"I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow,
And to the Republicans for which we scam, one nacho, underpants,
With licorice and jugs of wine for owls."

Click my name to see me as a South Park Character...Lori

took that dateline stress quiz - i scored a 720, which means i "run a medium risk of stress-related illness"...they underestimate me! *8-)

can i just say - i love google!!! apparently, that's how josh riley found me! (hi Josh!!!) i got an email from him last week - it's brought back quite a few earlham memories...sheesh, it seems like so long ago, and yet it doesn't....

so, i'm on an internet list with jo, who's pregnant - her due date's july 25 - and i suggested we throw her an online baby shower...now she's registered at amazon...i just hope our list buddies also contribute - it's been really cool reading her posts throughout her pregnancy, particularly since i know i won't be going out and getting knocked up! *8-) it's amazing the baby stuff that's out there - i never knew there was a John Lennon collection of baby stuff, featuring his drawings of animals and such!

David Naess has a cool site with an article titled "The Vagus Nerve Stimulator (NCP)
From A Patient's Point Of View" - sounds like it didn't really work for him in the long run, but he still has lots of info on the site for people looking into it...

the cartoon for the day in my gary larson far side calendar cracked me up - i'll have to scan it in at some point. it's from the point of view of a guy at his therapist, and the guy's holding a couple of inkblots. the caption reads, "It's just a simple Rorschach ink-blot test, Mr. Bromwell, so just calm down and tell me what each one suggests to you." well, the ink blots very clearly resemble the guy choking the therapist and such. it's much funnier if you actually see it, i suppose, and i think it's particularly funny to me cuz i've just recently started therapy...i'm gonna give a copy of it to Sheron at my next appointment. *8-)